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http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pillan_PateraAbstract is: Pillan Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is located at 12°20′S 243°15′W / 12.34°S 243.25°W, south of and west of Reiden Patera. It is named after the Araucanian thunder, fire, and volcano god. Its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1997. Pillan Patera is approximately 70 kilometers in diameter. In the summer of 1997, it erupted in an event now defined as "Pillanian" eruption style. At temperatures higher than 1,600 °C, (2912 °F) a 140 kilometer high plume eruption deposited dark pyroclastic materials rich in orthopyroxene over an area greater than 125,000 km2. This was followed by the emplacement of over 3,100 km2 in dark flow-like material north of the caldera. The high temperature part of the eruption lasted from 52 to 167 days and between May and September 1997, with peak eruption temperatures around June 28, 1997. The 1997 eruption was the largest effusive eruption ever witnessed. During a 100-day period, at least 31 km3 of lava were erupted, with 25 km3 shortly afterward. The eruption sheds light on emplacement of very large, voluminous flows millions of years ago on Mars and Earth. The highest effusion rates exceeded 10,000 cubic meters per second. The eruption produced a large, dark, deposit, 400 kilometers in diameter, which surrounds Pillan and partially covers a bright red ring left by the volcano Pele's plume. Since the eruption, the Pillan plume deposit has faded, coated by material from Pele and Kami-Nari Patera, a small volcano to the east of Pillan Patera.
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Description: These are before and after photos of a volcanic eruption at en:Pillan Patera on the moon Io. It occurred during a five-month period between April and September 1997, during the Galileo spacecraft's seventh and tenth orbits, respectively. The new dark spot around Pillan is approximately 400 kilometers (249 miles) in diameter. Galileo imaged a 120 kilometer (75 mile) high plume erupting from this location during its ninth orbit. Just southwest of this location is the volcano Pele, which is surrounded by a bright red ejecta blanket.
Artist: The original uploader was Volcanopele at English Wikipedia.
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